Benjamin Giles
Founder & Director Of Research at Caligra
New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolBenjamin Giles is a founder and research director with 14 years of hands-on software engineering and 20 years of broader technical experience building mission- and business-critical systems across government/defence, energy, fintech, and healthcare. He combines deep systems and CS fundamentals with practical expertise in GIS, ML, cloud architectures (GCP/AWS/Azure), and a wide spectrum of languages from Python and C++ to Lua and GLSL, often delivering portable, performance-sensitive solutions including x86_64 and ARM targets. Benjamin has led teams, managed PCI-level operational security, and bridged executive and engineering priorities as an engineering manager and consultant, with a track record of designing novel algorithms (e.g., MCMC for petroleum prospecting) and production data pipelines. Currently he runs design research for science and engineering workstations at Caligra while continuing contract work that has ranged from speech-to-text systems for vaccine R&D to GIS/ML tools for exploration. He pairs formal postgraduate study in distributed systems and cyber tradecraft with a penchant for pragmatic, well-tested implementations and mentoring junior engineers. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex mathematical and geospatial problems into deployable, auditable software used by executives and domain specialists.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityGraduate Diploma, Screenwriting, Graduate Diploma, Screenwriting at Film and Television InstituteCyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare, Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare at UNSW CanberraMaster's degree, Computing (Distributed Systems), Awarded with Distinction (3.9/4 GPA), Master's degree, Computing (Distributed Systems), Awarded with Distinction (3.9/4 GPA) at RMIT University
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Github contributions (5)
benkant/chord
Sep 2011 - Sep 2012
Contributions:25 commits, 1 push in 1 year
benkant/resume
Aug 2020 - Jan 2024
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